A pre-season friendly draw was followed up with defeats to Espanyol Barcelona and Atlanta Bergamo. Both those matches, in particular, highlighted that Dortmund still need some time to adjust to new head coach Peter Bosz.

The Dutch coach was brought in to replace Thomas Tuchel. Regardless Dortmund have looked somewhat better than the Bavarians during the pre-season and playing at home at the Signal Iduna Park should give die Schwarz-Gelben a further advantage.

At the same time, Tolisso is a very different player than the Spanish maestro. An energetic and dynamic midfielder Tolisso is more of a box-to-box midfielder, who will solve problems in midfield by carrying the ball rather than looking for passing solutions as it was the case with Alonso.

Corentin Tolisso was brought in to replace Xabi Alonso. Those advertisers use tracking technologies to collect information about your activity on our sites and applications and across the Internet and your other apps and devices.

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The DFL Supercup will be already the third meeting between the two sides in this calendar year after they met in the league and the DFB Pokal semi-final.

Bayern won the first and Borussia Dortmund the second, which paved the way to the final in Berlin for die Schwarz-Gelben.

The game on Saturday will be the seventh meeting between the two sides and Dortmund have a winning record having won four Supercup finals against Bayern.

However, Dortmund have also struggled in their pre-season preparations. A pre-season friendly draw was followed up with defeats to Espanyol Barcelona and Atlanta Bergamo.

Both those matches, in particular, highlighted that Dortmund still need some time to adjust to new head coach Peter Bosz. The Dutch coach was brought in to replace Thomas Tuchel.

Ribery is shown a yellow card for a lazy challenge in midfield. Just as it looked like BVB were getting themselves onto the front foot for the first time in this contest, they allow Bayern to score after failing to sense the danger on their own byline.

Favre will be extremely disappointed that his team have to climb out of another deficit. Just as soon as they go level, BVB loses the lead once again!

Gnabry plays a one-two pass with Muller to get into the penalty area, and his second touch is a beautiful back-heel flick into the path of Kimmich who chips it over Hitz to the far post for Lewandowski to once again finish from inside the six-yard box!

After seeing the replay a few times, the call looks slightly fortunate for the home side. Neuer did make contact with the legs of Reus, but perhaps the Germany international goalkeeper got his fingertips to the ball first.

Not an outrageous call, but perhaps slightly more contentious than would appear on first sight. Reus takes a slow run-up and sends Neuer the wrong way before curling his penalty into the right-hand corner!

The Klassiker is level once again! Sancho plays a perfect pass through the defence for Reus to latch onto — but Neuer comes racing out of his goal to stop him.

Can the home side take advantage?! Boateng plays a long ball over the top from defence for Lewandowski, but he strays just offside and the linesman is perfectly positioned to notice.

Dortmund have a free-kick. Bayern Munich restart the match from the kick-off! Dahoud is his replacement. The first half certainly had its share of chances, but only one of them were converted.

Dortmund have looked their best attacking down the left-hand side, with Hakimi and Bruun Larsen getting into crossing lanes, but they have been unable to get any quality deliveries to the other side for Sancho.

For Bayern, Ribery and Alaba have been lethal down their left, catching BVB off-guard with a number of well-timed switches. Bayern Munich have looked more experienced and comfortable in possession, and have been slightly better than their opponents.

The cross from Gnabry was perfect, and the finish was too easy at the near post. The fourth official indicates two additional minutes at the end of the half.

With half-time approaching, it looks as though Bayern with go into the interval with the lead. The referee gets play underway again and Bayern return possession to Borussia Dortmund, who promptly lose the ball in midfield.

Play is stopped after Bayern clear the free-kick as it looks as though the elbow of Akanji has made contact with the head of Martinez during an aerial duel.

The midfielder is down on the grass and receiving treatment. The Dortmund fans are furious as Hummels goes into sliding challenge on Gotze just outside the penalty area.

The referee fails to produce a card, but BVB have a free-kick in a good position. Akanji is shown a yellow card for stepping through the back of Lewandowski to win the ball.

Alaba is on the ball but refuses to play a throughball down the left for Ribery, urging the winger to calm down slightly as they look to hold possession.

Weigl is shown a deserved yellow card for a sliding challenge in midfield. Even if you choose not to have your activity tracked by third parties for advertising services, you will still see non-personalized ads on our site.

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